plate glass university

A form of plate-glass university — Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.

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nounplate glass university (plural plate glass universities)

plural plate glass universities

  1. alternativeAlternative form of plate-glass university.
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